The House of Representatives has voted to delay by eight years the enforcement of some air-pollution protections, but opposition to this industry-backed attack on clean air is mounting as the measure begins a move to the Senate....
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Filed Under:
Air quality,
Federal policy
A growing list of hundreds of localities, states, businesses, and universities across the country are responding to President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris climate accord by recommitting to the international agreeme...
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Filed Under:
Air quality,
Federal policy
Today Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe took a decisive step forward to fight climate change and to show the nation that, despite key environmental protections being undermined at the federal level, Virginia is moving forward.
“...
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State: Virginia
Filed Under:
Air quality,
Clean Power Plan,
Climate change,
Solar power,
Utilities
On behalf of the Concerned Citizens of Richmond County, SELC challenged a new state air permit for a proposed Enviva wood pellet plant because it was issued without any notice or opportunity for the local community to comment. The...
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Filed Under:
Air quality,
Biomass,
Healthy environment
The Trump administration on Tuesday asked to delay a court hearing on the already-implemented federal Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, a signal that the administration's Environmental Protection Agency will soon have marching ord...
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Filed Under:
Air quality,
Federal policy,
Healthy environment
As part of its 2015 criminal plea agreement, Duke Energy admitted that bromide discharged into rivers and lakes from its coal ash operations have caused carcinogens to form in downstream drinking water systems. Some of these carci...
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State: North Carolina
Filed Under:
Air quality,
Healthy environment,
Water quality
Memos circulated at the Environmental Protection Agency in the first days of the Trump administration put a freeze on the agency’s grants, as well as a gag order on EPA officials discussing the grant freeze.
The length and depth...
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Filed Under:
Air quality,
Federal policy,
Water quality
The Clean Air Act has been a hugely successful public health law. Since it was adopted in 1970, the nation has seen huge reductions in pollution coinciding with major growth in the economy. The new federal administration and anti-...
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Filed Under:
Air quality
They streamed into downtown Nashville in a pair of buses and packed a hearing room so thoroughly organizers had to retract a room divider to offer more seats.
More than 150 people from Nashville’s Joelton and Antioch communities...
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State: Tennessee
Filed Under:
Air quality,
Natural gas
Nashville residents in two neighborhoods are challenging plans to put a pair of massive natural gas compressors totaling more than 100,000 horsepower inside the city limits.
They’re joined by a growing list of elected leaders, in...
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State: Tennessee
Filed Under:
Air quality,
Natural gas
